Tales from back in the day (ICD & ASDG)

[pkivolowitz]

Kinshi - don't know who you are but thank you for the posts.
 
I can verify that they are accurate with respect to ASDG.
 
I can verify that at the moment Commodore went under, 50% of our income disappeared - that day.
 
One of the things I am most proud of in my business career is that I saw that day coming and started diversifying long enough ahead of time to have the other 50 percent of our business still left. I should have started sooner.
 
Did I bail on the Amiga? No - it is only true that I put a great deal of our resources into the diversification. I was responsible for 35 families. I owed it to them to climb out of the religious mindset that I too lived by (Amiga uber alles). Commodore management bailed on the Amiga.

[pkivolowitz]

I still have a envelope/stamp collection of all the support letters I received while I worked at ICD (Supported customers in over 43 nations, and on ALL 7 continents, and yes I do mean all of them. A lot of folks don't realize just how international the Amiga was, and really how North American a phenomenon the PC and the Mac were at the time.

ASDG maintained a bulletin board over its "conference table" filled with letters from the sons of Nigerian princes and oil ministers who would let us share in the 50,000,000 dollars they had stashed away if we would let them use our bank accounts.
 
I still remember one letter written on air mail tissue asking for free copies of our "full color lepy broz."